I always found BIOS fonts ugly, especially the uppercase and lowercase D letters.
What I do like are monospace fonts having one-story lower A letters. My short list of modern fonts with this feature:
- Monaco (Mac-only, 9pt and 12pt bitmap); "()" and "[]" appear circle- and square-like, resp.
- Anonymous 9 (Mac-only, bitmap)
- Anonymous (TTF, like Anonymous 9)
Plus, some monospace fonts have one-story as cursive/italics letter forms.
Anonymous Pro has two-story a and has much more complete Unicode coverage; has more latin-like proportions (x-height) and has (not strictly necessary) serifs on eg. letter C, lower letter F, etc. so probably doesn't go well with a sans font for other text?
What I do like are monospace fonts having one-story lower A letters. My short list of modern fonts with this feature:
- Monaco (Mac-only, 9pt and 12pt bitmap); "()" and "[]" appear circle- and square-like, resp.
- Anonymous 9 (Mac-only, bitmap)
- Anonymous (TTF, like Anonymous 9)
Plus, some monospace fonts have one-story as cursive/italics letter forms.
Anonymous Pro has two-story a and has much more complete Unicode coverage; has more latin-like proportions (x-height) and has (not strictly necessary) serifs on eg. letter C, lower letter F, etc. so probably doesn't go well with a sans font for other text?